External Hard Drive
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Can you get an external hard drive that will fit in one of the 5 1/4 inch bays of a tower and doesn't require an external power supply?
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Can you get an external hard drive that will fit in one of the 5 1/4 inch bays of a tower and doesn't require an external power supply?
You are probably looking for one of the "docking" solutions. I've seen those in pre-manufactured computers from HP and Medion. They have a "docking port" in one of the 5.25" bays that takes a (i think) 2.5" notebook HDD in a special "docking case". If you want to take it along with you, you hook it up to a USB cable, which allows you to use it with other computers without a "docking port". As far as I know, the "docking port" is simply a modified USB-port and requires a mainboard with unused USB ports that you can use for this purpose.
Cheers, Sebastian -- Contra vim mortem non est medicamen in hortem.
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Can you get an external hard drive that will fit in one of the 5 1/4 inch bays of a tower and doesn't require an external power supply?
A few years back, PC hardware suppliers stocked housings which you fitted into a 5.25 inch slot and connected to a motherboard IDE connector and to a hard-drive power supply cable. They had a removable tray which took a normal 3.5 inch IDE drive. Sometimes they had a small fan, other times they just let the hard drive overheat. Very useful for large backups (cheaper than a tape drive, etc.) The hard drive was not hot swappable, since it used the normal IDE interface.